Actors in the International System
These are considered the primary actors in the international system and usually have territory, government, population, and sovereignty.
What are states?
This means the ability of one actor to influence the behavior of another.
What is power?
Ancient Chinese general, strategist and philosopher who authored literature relevant to International Relations today.
Who is Sun Tzu?
This long-standing customary law protects diplomats from being arrested or prosecuted by host states.
What is diplomatic immunity?
This term describes a country, or organization that exercises supreme political, economic, military, or cultural authority over others.
What is a hegemon?
The international system where states coexist without a supreme world government.
What is international anarchy?
This event marked the end of the 30 year war, and established the beginning of state sovereignty.
What is Peace of Westphalia?
An idealistic set of points that aimed to promote European self determination, global trade and preservation of international peace.
What are Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?
These actors include the UN, NATO, IMF, World Bank, ASEAN, and the OAS.
What are intergovernmental organizations, or IGOs?
This international structure has two major powers restraining one another.
What is bipolarity?
This 13 day crisis between two super powers brought humanity to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This term describes an international norm and global political commitment to protect people from genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
What is Responsibility to Protect (R2P)?
This type of sovereignty describes the legal, constitutional and internationally recognized right to rule over a territory and its peoples.
What is de jure sovereignty?
This type of power dictates a state's ability to influence and shape the preferences of its own peoples and others without coercion or physical force.
What is soft power?
The dramatic exchange depicting negotiations recorded by Athenian historian Thucydides in the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Melian Dialogue?
This ethical framework judges actions by whether they produce the greatest overall good and minimize harm.
What is utilitarianism?
This theory poses that due to the anarchy of the international system states are forced to maximize their power.
What is offensive realism?
This term describes a foreign policy pursued by the U.S during the Cold War to stop the global spread of communism
What is containment?
This Latin term describes 200 years of roman peace, economic growth and stability.
What is Pax Romana?
This system, established in 1945, provides emergency short term balance of payments financed to member states, to ensure financial stability and facilitate international trade.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)